Opening keynotes: The Future, Faster.

Headliners/Keynotes

08:45 - 08:50 Welcome: DTW Ignite Host

08:50 - 08:53 Chairman’s introduction 
Steffen Roehn, Chairman, TM Forum

08:53 - 09:08 TM Forum opening address: Raising the bar - The future, faster

• How TM Forum and DTW Ignite bold action in a rapidly evolving industry
• Decision point for leaders: Transform ideas into visible, actionable commitments
• Driving impact across IT, networks, AI & Data to overcome structural pressures
• Real-world execution: Highlighting solutions that tackle rising costs, complexity and sustainability challenges

Nik Willetts, President & CEO, TM Forum

09:08 - 10:10 CEO keynotes & panel: The future. faster 

• The growth decisions that matter: Cutting through AI hype to focus on priorities that will drive sustainable growth and competitiveness. Addressing where AI adoption creates real business value, to the implications for security, customer trust, and long-term infrastructure investment
• Reinvent or fall behind: Confronting the economic reality of moving at AI speed;  tackling cost, complexity, sustainability, trust, and skills challenges while funding transformation, protecting margins, and deciding what legacy approaches can no longer be sustained
• Control in a complex world: Understanding who sets the pace in autonomy, AI, and platforms, and how telcos retain strategic control. How do we manage the ownership of data, governance, sovereignty, and their role in increasingly complex partner and platform ecosystems
• From vision to execution: Turning ambition into measurable impact across Composable IT & Ecosystems, Autonomous Networks, and AI & Data at Scale, offering a 360° view of the leadership choices that will shape performance, resilience, and differentiation over the next phase of the industry. 

Moderator: Nik Willetts, President & CEO, TM Forum
Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt
Manjot Singh Mann, CEO, Keppel
Claire Gillies, CEO Consumer, BT Group
Vivek Sood, GCEO & Managing Director, Axiata 
Pietro Labriola, CEO & Managing Director, TIM

10:10 - 10:30 AI, digital sovereignty, and the path back to profitable growth 

• Strategic imperatives: Balancing innovation with control to ensure national infrastructure resilience, data protection, and citizen trust while enabling AI at scale
• Unlocking asset value: Making data and applications accessible so AI can drive real business impact
• Agility as a driver: Flexible architectures and operating models accelerate AI adoption, experimentation, and measurable results
• From efficiency to growth: Using AI to create new revenue streams, differentiated services, and smarter operations for sustainable profitability

Jan Hofmeyr, Vice President, AWS for Telecom

10:30 Closing remarks 

Timings are provisional only and may be subject to change.